Promise and Pitfalls in the Use of "Secondary" Data-Sets: Income Inequality in OECD Countries As a Case Study

By Anthony B. Atkinson, A. Brandolini. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Rising Income Inequality: Technology, or Trade and Financial Globalization? (2008, neutral): “4Problems with such data are discussed in Atkinson and Bourguignon (2000), Atkinson and Brandolini (2001), and Deaton and Zaidi (2002).”
Does the Profile of Income Inequality Matter for Economic Growth? (2005, background): “Nonetheless, as pointed out by Atkinson and Brandolini (2001), and even for the OECD countries, differences in data coverage, income definition and construction methods could raise serious comparability issues, not only across countries but also over time.”
Inequality and growth in advanced economies: an empirical investigation (2010, background): “Alternatively, the high persistency of the income Gini coefficient and the fact that it is measured with error (see Atkinson and Brandolini, 2001) may rise some doubts whether the first difference GMM is an appropriate estimator in this context.”
Income Inequality and Macroeconomic Volatility: An Empirical Investigation (2005, methodology): “Following the arguments of Atkinson and Brandolini (2001), we do not consider only the “high quality” subset of the Deininger-Squire data set.”
Inequality and Trust: New Evidence from Panel Data (2016, neutral): “On this point, see also the Banfield’s (1958) famous study of a Southern Italian village in which individuals were connected by very strong bonds within families but not at all between families (the so-called ‘amoral familism’).”
Micro-Level Estimation of Welfare (2002, methodology): “3The state-of-the-art data set for this purpose, compiled by Deininger and Squire (1996), goes a long way towards establishing comparability but the critique by Atkinson and Brandolini (2001) shows it remains very far from ideal.”
How Closely Do Top Income Shares Track Other Measures of Inequality (2007, positive): “In a seminal paper, Atkinson and Brandolini (2001) noted major problems arising from the use of these databases.”
World income inequality databases: an assessment of WIID and SWIID (2015, positive): “Much-cited papers by Barro (2000) and Forbes (2000) examined this question using the Deninger and Squire (1996) data. Barro (2008) revisited the topic using an early version of the WIID and later versions have been employed more recently by Berg et al. (2012), Castelló-Climent (2010), and Chambers a”
Inflation and Inequality (2007, background): “Constraints from availability, quality and comparability of the data on inequality, analyzed in Atkinson and Brandolini (2001), restrict sample size.”